In a delicious turn of events, scientists succeeded in taking the optics of olive oil to create the first-ever microlaser ...

Chlorophyll is a large molecule and takes a lot of resources to make; as such, it breaks down towards the end of the leaf's life, and most of the pigment's nitrogen ...

So far, Woodward has made only a smidgen of chlorophyll-a.† It is authentic —but it cannot turn water and CO into sugar when exposed to sunlight.

Chlorophyll absorbs light we see as blue and red. That’s why we see plant leaves as green, because green is the wavelength they reflect. When a photon of light excites a chlorophyll molecule, this ...

IN 1952 Calvin1 advanced the hypothesis that the available energy of the excited chlorophyll molecule starts photosynthesis by splitting the disulphide bond of thioctic acid into the biradical. As ...